The Amiri Diwan in Kuwait announced, on Tuesday, the death of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
The Minister of the Kuwaiti Amiri Diwan, Sheikh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, announced in a statement broadcast on Kuwait TV, the death of the Emir, who had been treated in the United States since last July.
Earlier, Kuwaiti television had cut its usual programs to broadcast verses from the Qur’an.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 91, was admitted to a hospital in the United States in July for treatment after undergoing surgery in Kuwait in the same month.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, may God have mercy on him, was the fifteenth Emir of the State of Kuwait, and the fifth after his country's independence in 1961.
He was educated at the Mubarakiya School and continued his studies at the hands of private professors.
He entered political work and the field of public affairs in 1954 as a member of the Supreme Executive Committee, which serves as the Council of Ministers, then was appointed head of the Department of Social Affairs and Labor, and a member of the Construction and Development Council in 1955.
This was before Sheikh Sabah assumed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1963 until 1991.
Four decades in which Sheikh Sabah witnessed major historical events in his country, the region and the world, until he was called the sheikh of Arab diplomats and the dean of Arab and Kuwaiti diplomacy at the time.
In 1992, he assumed the position of First Deputy Prime Minister alongside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and also held the position of Minister of Information for various periods until he became Prime Minister of Kuwait in 2003, and the Emir of Kuwait in January 2006.
In the same month, members of the National Assembly unanimously pledged allegiance to him, and thus he was the third Emir to take the constitutional oath before the National Assembly in the history of Kuwait.
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